Red Mansion Huacai

Chapter 27 Qin Siqi begged for mercy on behalf of his brother and had to drag a gun and hang a seal on the street

"Sir!" Seeing Li Weijian still smiling, Xiu Ying said angrily: "That person named Xue is really bullying!"

"Where was the bullying? It was clear that he was angry just now." Li Weijian said.

The silly girl Xiu Ying believed Li Weijian's words and said angrily: "You haven't been bullied yet? Just now you clearly didn't take the young master seriously. Thanks to the young master's good temper, if it were my brother, he would have beaten him long ago."

Seeing the little girl's angry expression, Li Weijian smiled and said, "Just say it to my face, but don't talk nonsense outside."

"Oh, I see."

Li Weijian looked unconcerned. He dismounted at the corner gate, handed the two horses to the disciples, and joked with them for a while.But it was strange today. Normally, that person would get the benefit of being polite but rarely respectful. For some reason, when Li Weijian looked at that person, he always felt that he was extremely respectful now.

He reluctantly walked around Jia Mansion to the side door of the private alley, but he was thinking about Xue Pan.No wonder Xue Pan is known as the stupid overlord, he is reckless and unwise, and acts without scruples based on his family background.Li Weijian came to help that day. Afterwards, Xue Pan called him a "benefactor" and "a righteous man", and he was probably used as a talking point.

As for his heart, this stupid overlord never regarded him as his 'benefactor'.

Li Weijian then thought about it, this guy was able to get away with beating people to death in Jinling, and his uncle Wang Ziteng was promoted to an official, so it is no wonder that he is so domineering.Perhaps in Xue Pan's heart, the four families of Xue, King Jia Shi, were serious relatives, and King Beijing, Feng Ziying, etc. were friends.

As for Li Weijian, he can't be beaten with eight poles. He is just a big Qiongcuo who came to join Jia's family, so what kind of relative is he?

People in the world have always "respected Luo Shi first and then others". Li Weijian never expected others to think highly of him, but he still wanted to step on him when he belittled himself?If you don't overturn him, he will write the character "Li" upside down!

He still had a smile on his face, and he and Xiu Ying entered Jia's house through the side door, and after walking a short distance, they entered the small courtyard where they lived.

The red jade ears seemed to be smarter than others. He came out early, said a few greetings, and talked about the big and small things in the house.

"Today, Mr. Bao and Mr. Qin went to see the old lady. They said that tomorrow Mr. Qin would go to a free school to study. Mr. Bao was also arguing in front of the old lady about going to a free school. The old lady I couldn’t bear to beg, and finally agreed.”

"Second Master Qin?" Li Weijian was slightly surprised.

Hongyu said: "He is a brother from Grandma Dongfu Rong's family."

Of course he knew it was Qin Zhong, but he didn't expect that Zi Baoyu and Qin Zhong would be mixed up at this moment.

That Hongyu said again: "Second Master Bao said that he is going to find the Second Master in the future. Only if he gets his permission can he go to the charity school."

"Well," Li Weijian entered the main room and saw two maids, Qingwen and Xiangling, putting down their work and coming over.He took off his outer clothes and said, "Is there anything else?"

"There is one more thing," Hongyu snatched the coat, folded it and said, "There is a boy named Pan Youan living in the back street. Today I was sent to follow Shan Daliang to do something, but he was taken away by the government servants on the way."

"Take it?"

"I heard it was the imperial envoy who patrolled the city, so I took it from the street."

Li Weijian Shiran sat down, picked up the warm tea brought by Qingwen and took a slow sip. When he put down the tea cup, he already had some suspicions in his mind.

The censor who patrols the city is only of the sixth grade. Although he is noble, how can he offend the Jia family for no reason?Thinking of Yan Xiyao's advice earlier, I knew it must be Shao Sikou's handiwork!
His expression calmed down, he nodded and said, "I understand." He turned to look at Qingwen and said, "Go get a couple of silver and give it to Hong Yu." Then he looked at Hong Yu again and said, "From now on, you will be responsible for all things big and small in the house." I have tried my best to inquire, and if I inquire more usefully, I will reward you!"

"Hey? Hey, thank you Fourth Master for the reward!" Hongyu happily bowed down and stood up and said: "Fourth Master hasn't eaten yet, has he? I went to the kitchen to get dinner."

Turning around, Hongyu walked away from Pingting with brisk steps.

Qingwen pursed her lips and glanced at Hongyu, took a deep breath, and said to the dumbfounded Xiangling, "Xiangling, go get some water and help the young master clean his hands."

Xiangling responded in a low voice and left the main room.So only Li Weijian and Qingwen were left in the room.

The little girl hesitated for a moment, then said: "Sir, my concubine has been here these past few days, and the maids below have benefited a lot. Xiu Ying got a gold bracelet, and my former son Hongyu also got a pair of pearl necklaces——"

Li Weijian smiled and said: "That's weird, why didn't my concubine grant you any benefits?"

"You gave it to me, I didn't want it." Qingwen said, "They say that people who take advantage of people are short-handed and cannibalistic. Xiu Ying and Hong Yu have benefited from my concubine. I'm afraid -"

"I know." Li Weijian said: "Qingwen is indeed a reassuring person. But Xiuying and Hongyu have benefited from it, and they have told me about it."

Qingwen laughed at herself: "I told Fourth Master, but it seems that I am not a villain in vain."

"Where are you talking about? Qingwen is so loyal and loyal, but it's hard to find her even with a lantern."

The little girl blushed at the praise, her anger suddenly disappeared, and she murmured: "Fourth Master is good at using words to coax people."

Qingwen turned her head away, but her heart was filled with concern. She saw Li Weijian moving his neck and biting his lower lip, then walked around behind him and stretched out a pair of small, neat hands to hold it gently.

Li Weijian simply closed his eyes and enjoyed it.After a while, Xiangling first brought warm water, and then Hongyu came back with a food box.

Several maids spread out the dishes, and Li Weijian was about to use his chopsticks when he suddenly heard a knock at the door from outside.Hongyu went out to take a look, and when she came back she said strangely: "Fourth Master, Sister Siqi who is next to the second girl wants to see you."

"Chess?"

Li Weijian was puzzled. He didn't remember Siqi, the maid, and he didn't know why she came to look for him.

He put down his chopsticks and said, "Maybe the second girl has something wrong? Please invite her in."

Hongyu responded and immediately brought Siqi in.

Li Weijian sat down and looked around when he saw a tall and plump woman coming in with Hongyu. She was wearing a lotus root pink coat and skirt, an embroidered dark red bra, a loose bun with a plain hair on her temples. Silver hairpin, seven-color face full of eagerness.

Li Weijian looked at his face and was wondering what was going on when he saw Si Qi take two hurried steps and kneel in front of him with a pop.

"Fourth Master Jian, please let my cousin go. He was just temporarily blinded by lard. Fourth Master Jian has forgiven me. I will make him work as a cow and a horse in the future to repay Fourth Master Jian!"

"Hey? What are you doing?" Li Weijian winked at Hongyu quickly: "Pull her up quickly."

Hong Yu and Xiang Ling stepped forward to help him. However, Siqi was so tall and strong that the two of them couldn't pull Siqi up after several pulls.

Li Weijian said: "What you said is meaningless. I don't even know who your cousin is or what he committed. Why don't you get up first and explain it clearly?"

As he said this, there was a suspicion in his heart.The man surnamed Pan was probably the boy who blocked the door to lure him away that day. He was probably the cousin of the chess player.

The Siqi didn't get up after hearing what he said, he just knelt there and spoke in detail.

Sure enough, as Li Weijian thought, Pan Youan was Siqi's cousin, working as a servant in Jia's house. Because he was young and had no serious work, he just followed the helpers in charge of various affairs.Pan Youanxu felt that Li Weijian was worthless, and with Jia Qiang's promise, he pretended to be a disciple and tricked Li Weijian into walking through a side door and was ambushed.

After explaining his reasons, Si Qi kowtowed to the ground again: "Fourth Master Jian, for the sake of my cousin's young age, please spare him this life!" Li Weijian said nothing with a solemn face. Qingwen couldn't help it anymore and snorted softly: "You are young? It's because our fourth master has practiced martial arts. Xiu Ying brought darts. Who will hurt whom in the end when five of them fight three?" How can you forgive me with just a simple excuse? How shameless! Not to mention you, even the second girl is here and it doesn’t make sense!"

Li Weijian secretly gave Qingwen a thumbs up.At this moment, Qingwen needs to speak for him like this. As a master, he can't embarrass a little...big maid.

Siqi said anxiously: "I also know that I don't have such a big face. I really... There is really nothing I can do. Fourth Master Jian, if you can just relax, please spare my cousin. From now on... from now on, you can I will answer whatever you say!"

Everything?
As soon as these words came out, not only Qingwen, but also Hongyu lost his face and said angrily: "Look at how old you are, I call you Sister Siqi. How about you save some face? You are so headless." Don't say what Wei said in front of our Fourth Master from now on. What I know is that you and Pan You'an have an affair, but those who don't know think that our Fourth Master is bullying others. Go ahead and don't force me to curse."

"I, I'm not..."

Si Qi wiped away his tears and looked at Li Weijian pleadingly.

Li Weijian said: "Forget about other things, the person who arrested your cousin was the censor of the city. I am just a scholar, how can I match the censor of the city? I think you should think of other ways. "

Si Qi collapsed on the ground, and after a long while, he got up and kowtowed to Li Weijian again, saying, "My cousin made all the mistakes he made. Now that he can't come to Fourth Master Jian, I will give Jian some advice for him." Fourth Master kowtows to apologize."

"Hey..." Li Weijian just sighed and said nothing.

Siqi stood up and walked out in a daze like a zombie.

As soon as the people left, Qingwen said with a cold face: "The backyard door will be guarded. If someone comes to see the fourth master, ask him why first, so as not to bother the fourth master with shameless things!"

Hongyu was scolded, feeling sulky but unable to argue. After all, it was her fault.

Li Weijian gave a few words of advice, picked up his chopsticks and ate while he casually made a joke, which immediately made several maids laugh. Let's not mention it.

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The next day, it was a holiday. On this day, Yan Xiyao had a holiday, the Qintian Supervisor had a holiday, and the Ministry of Industry's Firearms Test Range also had a holiday.

However, Li Weijian had breakfast and left the house early in the morning.As soon as his front legs left, his back legs came to the small courtyard to see if Fourth Master Jian was there. When he learned that he had already left the house, he immediately returned disappointed.

Pan Youan was detained by the censor who patrolled the city. How could Aunt Xue remain indifferent?

Together with Wu Haiping, the two rode away. When they were far away from Jia's house, Wu Haiping came over and whispered: "Sir, those two green-skinned men were playing tricks halfway out of the outer city, and I stabbed them with my scabbard. After being slapped with ribs, I returned home honestly."

"What's going on at home?"

"There are elders above and several younger brothers and sisters below, so they can't run away."

"Is your family not rich?"

"It's a shabby place. We live in a large house with an empty floor in a courtyard. Seven or eight families are crowded into three rooms, with no eyes to see."

"Well done." He knew it well.

Sitting on the horse, Li Weijian thought for a while and said, "Let's go to Nengren Temple first. Miss Lin will give birth in two days. It's better not to be as hasty as last time."

The two of them rode away, and within a moment of burning incense, they arrived near Nengren Temple. On the streets on both sides, there were already vendors with cats, dogs, and birds in cages, hawking to everyone.

Li Weijian was wandering around for a while, and as luck would have it, he bumped into a cat seller. In the cage was a cat with white fur, a black tail, and a black patch on its head.

Li Weijian immediately reined in his horse and stopped. The hawker followed his gaze and immediately picked up the cat and hawked it: "Young Master has good eyesight. It is not common for a general to drag a gun and hang a seal. I have been doing this for three years." "It's my first time to receive a cat like this."

"The Book of Cats" says: "The white forehead extends from the waist to the tail, and the middle point is a round star." It is called dragging a gun and hanging a seal, and the owner of this cat is expensive!
Li Weijian turned over and dismounted, and picked up the cat. The cat didn't know how old it was, so it lay down obediently and scratched its chin slightly. The cat purred loudly, showing that it was a very close relative.

Seeing that Li Weijian was eager to hunt, he bargained with the hawker and spent 12 taels of silver to buy the drag gun with the seal.

He originally thought that he couldn't find a cute cat or dog, so he went to look for objects nearby, but now he felt relieved.

When they arrived at Yan's house, it was just after midnight. Li Weijian and Yan Fenzhen chatted for a while, but Yan Fenzhen was in a hurry to make the spiral rifling blunderbuss tube, so he simply left him and left in a hurry.

Li Weijian watched the Liu family and his son dig the well for a long time. About noon, he got word from the steward and asked to see Yan Xiyao.

After waiting for less than half an hour, it was not until [-]:[-] noon that the housekeeper sent away the previous visitor and then introduced Li Weijian into the study.

When Li Weijian entered the door, he saw Yan Xiyao holding chopsticks and looking at a plate of scallops.When Yan Xiyao saw that Li Weijian had seen him, he just nodded slightly, picked up a piece of Yao Zhu without noticing, thought for a moment, put it back on the plate, and sighed: "This thing is delicious, but you will suffer from eating it. Ha, I am better than the big ones after all." Sikong is stronger, he can't eat even a little bit."

Li Weijian stepped forward to meet Li and said with a smile: "There is residual poison in this thing. You may as well not eat it if you like. If you want the food to be delicious, there is no other way."

There is no way to explain purine, it can only be said to be residual poison.

"Oh?" Yan Xiyao put down his chopsticks and looked over.

Li Weijian said: "Gather sea sausage, dry it, grind it into powder, melt it in water and boil it to separate out the particles. Add a little when cooking, it will be much more delicious than usual."

"Really?" Yan Xiyao said with great joy: "I will ask someone to try it later. If it is true, I will definitely remember the favor of resurrection!"

Seeing Yan Xiyao speaking so solemnly, Li Weijian thought to himself, this young Sikou is still an old man.

He smiled and said, "You will know once you try it. Masters of Shandong cuisine in the capital often grind sea sausage into powder and add a small amount when cooking. This is a secret that has not been passed down. However, I am afraid that this alone cannot remove the residual poison from the sea food. Only by boiling the precipitated particles can they be removed.”

"Okay, okay, don't ask for heretics when you are resurrected. Come and sit down quickly. Come on, bring us some tea."

Li Weijian cupped his hands to thank him and sat down calmly.After the servant served the fragrant tea, he chatted with Yan Xiyao while sipping the fragrant tea, and then said: "Sir, it's a coincidence that when I returned yesterday, I happened to bump into the two green skins who escaped from the ambush that day."

"Oh?"

"These two people are also pitiful people. They are old and young. They are a family of seven or eight people who are crowded into three rooms. They are willing to do any kind of work to make ends meet."

Yan Xiyao narrowed his eyes and smiled, like Maitreya Buddha, and said: "It's too late to know about the resurrection. As far as I know, Zhan Chong, the censor of the city, has already received this information, and will arrest those two people tomorrow at the latest. .”

Li Weijian heard Xian's elegance and said: "Zhan Yushi has good methods. Cases that Shuntian Mansion cannot handle will have repercussions if Zhan Yushi takes action."

Yan Xiyao smiled and said: "What case in the world is not difficult? It only depends on whether the person handling the case is loyal or not, and whether he is careful or not."

Li Weijian immediately held up his hands and said, "I have learned the lesson. Your Excellency is indeed loyal to the country."

　I don’t know what happened to the timing, but it went wrong again. . . .

　　
　
(End of this chapter)